i'm shocked and appalled!

So I am currently slathering my mouth with Nivea while brushing my teeth with SLS toothpaste and hoping for the best. Already the staining is getting slightly better. Wtf though.

This was playing in the gym this morning, I forgot I love this song. I've been finding or being reminded of loads of great songs by chance - in the supermarket, in b&q, at the credits of TV shows. It's my favourite way to find music.

I think I'm reading a book by a real author written in mandarin, which was translated into English by a real translator who adds footnotes throughout. But alongside these real translator's footnotes are a fake translator's footnotes who is writing about the original mandarin novel? And the entire novel is a translation of a fake novel. I can't even explain this in writing. Utterly confused. What's written by a character (which includes a fictional translator?), what's written by the author, and what's written by the real translator?

Now his brother (also my cousin) recently had a baby - he's 25, his baby is the first grandchild in the family etc. I messaged him to be like wow how exciting congrats you're an uncle, how weird! And he will not stop messaging me since, too many winky faces for my liking, asking me what car I drive and if I drive fast, weird stuff like you would if you were trying to chat up a girl and had no game. To be fair to him it could all be innocent stuff, I get the sense he's a bit socially stunted and maybe lonely, he still lives at home at 30 and has had the same job since he left school, lives in a rural area and as far as I know has never left Devon, but I just don't feel comfortable with it. He won't let the conversation die even when I've not replied for days. I have been kind of giving the benefit of the doubt and replying as we are family and idk. But we aren't part of each other's lives and this is too much. So I am going to have to ghost him fully again. Lovely!

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